Sublime

when a man died and became redundant he would be taken up to the attic of the world.

his virtual divinities were good practical schemes, accurate work, and the faithful completion of undertakings: his prince of darkness was a slack workman.

It was not about the beginning of his speech that Mr Brooke was at all anxious; this, he felt sure, would be all right; he should have it quite pat, cut out as neatly as a set of couplets from Pope. Embarking would be easy, but the vision of open sea that might come after was alarming. ‘And questions, now,’ hinted the demon just waking up in his st

was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshipping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but the husband in question. Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

C’était la noble abnégation à laquelle consentent tous les amants, et il en avait accueilli l’idée à cet instant, au téléphone, dans la vision d’un tourbillon de feu et de gloire ; et mourir pour elle, jugeait-il, c’était avoir bien vécu et aimé. Il n’avait que vingt et un ans, et il aimait pour la première fois.